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From: nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SIMMs installation problem
Summary: MacProducts Simms, Again
Message-ID: <13912@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 89 18:47:06 GMT
References: <8385@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <430108@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <430108@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>, twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) writes:
1> The SIMM slots on my Mac+ were black AND I had trouble trying to install
1> High profile RAM from MacProducts USA. I pushed a little too hard trying to
1> get a socket arm to lock down over the SIMM & the arm broke :*<
1> 
1> The problem was the lower row of DIP pins interfering with the
1> lower lip on the socket. The 'cure' other then replacing the socket
1> with another type is to clip the lower row of pins that stick below the 
!> board.  
...
!> Another strategy - get rid of the SIMMs intended for this Mac {return, trade,
!> use in another machine, mail to me {;*)} } & get some SMT {lo profile}
!> SIMMs for this mac.

There has much discussion about MacProducts SIMMS on the net in the past. The
major complaint is problem like yours--MacProducts SIMMS are non-standard
size and manufacture and cause the SIMM sockets to be broken. 
MacProducts will not 
honor the warranty if you so much as scratch excess solder off a pin. Many
of us ex-MacProducts customers recommend that you stay away.